Sentence examples for layer of stone from inspiring English sources

And with each new layer of stone the air got warmer and began to smell, at first something like a laundry hamper, then more like inside the mouth of a sun-baked cadaver.

In an epic piece of work, the stones facing in that direction were laboriously shaped to appear straight and regular, their original rough brown surfaces hammered away, or pick-dressed, to expose the lighter inner layer of stone, which when newly worked would have shone in the sunlight.

The same analysis can be extrapolated to a reprofiled stone, which can be seen as a thick layer of stone covered by a thin layer of repair mortar, as depicted in Fig. 4g i.

A 5 cm layer of stone chips (diameter 3 6 mm) was used to separate the upper and lower parts so that capillary movement of water between the two parts was prevented without restricting root penetration.

In this layer of stone and dirt, scientists have discovered the fossils of ancient turtles, crocodiles, croc-like champsosauruses, as well as dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus rex and the three-horned Triceratops horridus.

Cover the brick with another layer of stone dust after laying all your bricks or pavers.

I lie with my back on a layer of stones, mainly hot but with a few carefully positioned cold ones.

Several hotels have been built, and the main street winding through the town has been paved — or rather, covered by an uneven layer of stones and cement.

One display in the museum showed how the original Ostia Road was constructed: heavy posts buried deep and cemented in as a base, then a layer of stones, more concrete and finally the paving stones.

It's no secret that earthquakes can melt rock: The resulting glassy layer of stone--called pseudotachylyte--rises to the surface when mountains form, allowing geologists a look.

With the steel wire meshes in place, a layer of stones (10 cm thick; 20, 10 and 5 mm diameter) was laid to enable even gas to charge.